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The Evidence-Based Policing Conference returns in July. It will host 41 experts on subjects ranging from AI in policing to police safeguards.
We are also celebrating the 30th anniversary of our Policing MSt, reopening for applications in September. All senior police professionals may apply.
Learn more and book your place on the conference: www.crim.cam.ac.uk/events/evide...
One more week until Professor Federico Varese's talk on 'Russia in Four Criminals'. Come along to hear about how a mobster, an oligarch, a drug-dealer and a malware engineer shaped modern Russia, and its implications for the West.
📅 4 June 2026
🕰️ 17:30-19:00
www.crim.cam.ac.uk/events/book-...
One week until the 2026 Nigel Walker Lecture, where Professor Julian Roberts will explore 'Sentencing Matters- Past, Present and Future'.
How did Nigel Walker's 'Sentencing Law, Public Policy and Practice' change sentencing? Roberts will give his perspective.
🔗 www.crim.cam.ac.uk/events/27th-...
Join Professor Julian Roberts in two weeks' time for the 2026 Nigel Walker Lecture, 'Sentencing Matters- Past, Present and Future'.
🔗https://www.crim.cam.ac.uk/events/27th-annual-nigel-walker-lecture-sentencing-matters-past-present-and-future
Can cultural context affect diagnoses?
PhD student Cheryl Peng's research into psychopathy in China found that Western measures do not account for common Chinese attitudes.
In response, she is devising a China-specific psychometric tool to identity psychopathy.
www.crim.cam.ac.uk/news/phd-res...
PhD candidate Noëlle Demole has found sex trafficking is prevalent in Europe.
Using a 'Loverboy Method', traffickers form relationships with women to lure them in, while avoiding detection. But Demole hopes her findings will make traffickers easier to identify.
www.crim.cam.ac.uk/news/phd-stu...
At the Criminology PhD Conference on 28-29 April, PhD researchers came from across the world to discuss how criminology can confront global injustices.
Using both research papers and presentations, they touched on subjects ranging from colonialism to violence.
www.crim.cam.ac.uk/news/annual-...
Join Paolo Campana on 20 May, for a webinar with Cambridgeshire Constabulary on tackling youth violence.
Campana will discuss his research into youth crime, the role of networks, and how police can respond.
📆20 May 2026
🕚11:00-12:00
🔗https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AIBMkoHRQQWTOvroW0hQ6Q#/
Learn more about the MSt in Applied Criminology and Police Management: www.crim.cam.ac.uk/mst-applied-...
